BROOKLYN, Mich – Both William Byron and Darrell Wallace Jr. admit that without Kyle Busch, they likely wouldn’t be Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers right now. See, Busch and his NASCAR Gander Outdoors Trucks Series team (Kyle Busch Motorsports) gave both drivers their first true NASCAR shot. Both started in the Truck Series with KBM.

Fast forward to last Sunday at the Watkins Glen (NY) International road course. Both, had run ins, with their former boss. That led to all three being called to the NASCAR hauler for a chat on Friday at the Michigan International Speedway. By the end of the day on Friday, the rifts between any of them are gone.

“We both agreed to disagree on what led up to those events and what happened,” Wallace said on Friday. Our frustrations were high and what not. We had a good conversation. We were kind of pissed off at each other when I’d say something it would piss him off and vice versa but at the end of the day we shook hands and it was over with. He finished 11th. I’m not a threat to him. At the end of the day I still have to get respect.

“I got ran over and he got ran over. It’s fair in my book. He wanted me to come over there and talk to him after and I told him it wouldn’t have been good for him. I’m over it. When it was over I was fine well I was pissed off the rest of the race but Monday I was fine. We had our beef and obviously had bad days and frustrations boiled over. Right now, I’m not even thinking about him. We have to get our race cars better and have to focus on that.”

Busch, gave his side saying that while it was shocking to have drama on the race track with two former drivers, he’ll move forward with a better feeling on how things stand.

“I would say that it’s kind of surprising I guess that you get into it with two former drivers. I guess you would expect to get a little bit more or different from them than say some other competitors out there. I guess I didn’t quite get that but overall as far as conversations went today I’d say there’s a better understanding with both of them and we’ll move forward.”

Busch, spoke at length on why he felt like he didn’t cause both incidents with them and that both of his moves were paybacks for something the other two did to wrong him during the course of the race.

Busch, said that despite the aesthetics that he spun on his own while trying to pass Byron early in last Sunday’s race, it was Byron who didn’t give him enough room and that he in fact made contact with his No. 18 Toyota instead.

“I didn’t do shit,” Busch told Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports. “There was contact there. He came down and chopped me in the left front and spun me out. Yes, I think it was avoidable. If you look at Lap 3, the 19 was passing the 42 getting into Turn 1 and the 42 gave a car width and a half of room through there. Everything was fine. If you fast forward to Lap 13 the 19 was passing the 24 the exact same way I was and the 24 broke hard enough to where he got behind the 19 before they got to the corner and they made the corner single file. They weren’t even side by side. There’s different things you can do at different times. If it was the last lap I would have expected him to do what he did. But, Lap 2, you expect a little bit different I guess.”

In terms of his incident with Wallace, Busch did say that he meant to spin him but didn’t mean to crash him. He did so because of how Wallace was racing him earlier too.

“There was two other races prior to that one that it kind of built up to the backstretch. I set up my pass on him in the inner loop back in Turn 2 got a run on him through 2 and through 3 and he messed up Turn 3 pretty bad and I was on him and actually to his outside in Turn 4 and he didn’t know I was there and he ran me off in the dirt in Turn 4 and I had to get out of the gas so we both didn’t crash. So, I figured the next time that I get to him, if I get to him and I’m alongside of him or not, if he comes and chops my nose then it is what it is. So, that’s what happened in the carousel. Did I mean to crash him? No. But did I mean to move him? Sure. It just escalated from there.”